NAV 45/13
ANNEX
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p.44
III/5.2.l Correction: In stead of I am fast on ice - My vessel is fast in ice/My ship is fast in ice.
p.54
III/6.2.1.6.1 Insert new item: DGPS...
p.56
III/6.2.2.l Insert new item: Position obtained by LORAN
p.68
IV-A/3.3 Briefing on navigational aids and equipment status
Insert new item: DGPS in operation
DGPS not in operation
p.75
Insert reference after:
IV-A/5.4 Draft: and air draft - see p.24
IV-A/5.5 Anchoring - see p.25
IV-A/5.5.2 Leaving the anchorage - see p.25
IV-A/ 5.6 Tug assistance - see p.25
p.101
IV-B/6.2 Instead of Person-overboard activities - Man overboard activities (man overboard occurs several times in IV-B/6.2.)
p.118
IV-D/1.2.4 Instead of Person overboard - Man overboard (MOB)
Comments by Italy
From March 15 to 19, 1999, a group of 15 Coast Guard Officers and Petty Officers of he Capitaneria di Porto di Trieste participated in an intensive Maritime English course of 30 hours organized byMO-IMA in Trieste.
This course was exclusively devoted to the training of the SMCP in routine VHF communication, VTS communication, SAR and Distress/Urgency/Safety communication. That means, maritime English requirements were met which our Officers in their services have to be incrasingly prepared to.
We can state that the participants consider the SMCP to be of great value for training of nonnative English speaking maritime personnel since they provide a useful minimum communication device. Teaching the SMCP was very interesting as well because it had been done by means Of a methodically well thought-out instrumentatium using audio cassettes, various handouts, transparencies, etc. However, the corresponding Drafting Group on the SMCP would probably be well advised to find ways of reasonably reducing the total amount of phrases.
